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Oral arguments in the Nixon v. United States case were played on audio, with sketches of the participants shown on the video. Walter Nixon, a federal judge, challenged the procedures the Sen…

Frank Murray discussed the case before and after the audio tapes of the oral arguments for Raines v. Byrd were played with corresponding courtroom drawings. The case was the first Supreme Co…

Oral Arguments were heard in the U.S. Supreme Court case Stenberg v. Carhart. Nebraska Attorney General Donald Stenberg and Simon Heller, who represented Dr. Leroy Carhart, argued whether a …

Attorneys made oral arguments in the case of Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania v. Casey. Robert P. Casey was the governor of Pennsylvania. Ernest Preate argued the cause for the r…

Attorneys made oral arguments in the 1989 case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. Then Missouri Attorney General William Webster argued the case for the respondents. Frank Susman ar…

President Ronald Reagan spoke after Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in as Chief Justice and Antonin Scalia was sworn in as Supreme Court Justice.

U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument of Rice v Cayetano. The argument was whether the state of Hawaii could restrict eligibility to vote in elections for the Board of Trustees of the Office of H…

Supreme Court nominee John Roberts argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court. This is his Supreme Court oral argument in a case NCAA v. Smith, which he argued January 20, 1999. John Roberts w…

Justices heard arguments in the case of Bush v. Gore, docket number 00-949, regarding the manual recount of “undervote” ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. Among the concerns of th…

Justices heard oral arguments in two cases involving the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad and incarcerated at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. The cases are Rasul v. Bush and Al-…

Attorneys presented oral arguments in the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, docket number 03-6696, which focused on the detention of American citizens captured in hostilities overseas and classifie…

Lawyers for the government, environmental groups, and watch dog organizations argued a case involving the disclosure of documents and information relating to Vice President Cheney’s energy p…

All nine Supreme Court justices posed for a group photograph.

An audio record of oral arguments from earlier in the day in a case over campaign finance reform legislation were played over still images of the participants. Arguments focused on limits to…

America and the Courts will feature recent clips of three Supreme Court justices. Justice Scalia talked about freedom at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July. Chief Justic…

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Clinton v. Jones.

The nine justices were shown briefly, preparing for their annual photo session. Once a year, photographers are allowed into a room in the U.S. Supreme Court to take a group photo of the curr…

Current and past Justices talked about the duty of the Supreme Court. Legal reporters and C-SPAN looked at the Supreme Court.

Attorneys made oral arguments in the case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla, docket number 03-1027, which focused on writs of habeas corpus for citizens deemed enemy combatants who were arrested on U.S…